What is "fletchers"

Usage examples of "fletchers".

All the Fletchers and everything belonging to them were almost worshipped at Wharton Hall.

The Fletchers were great people, with great spirits, too good in every way for such baseness.

The old kings had died away, but the Fletchers and the Vaughans,--of whom she had been one,--and the Whartons remained, a peculiar people in an age that was then surrendering itself to quick perdition, and with peculiar duties.

Wharton, when the Fletchers or Everett were there, was freely used for that purpose.

John looked very black, for even with him the feeling about the Whartons and the Vaughans and the Fletchers was very strong.

The Fletchers were connected with the De Courcys, and as soon as the declaration of the Duke had been made known, the De Courcy interest had aroused itself, and had invited that rising young barrister, Arthur Fletcher, to stand for the borough on strictly conservative views.

He was certainly a man not standing on the solid basis of land, or of the Three Per Cents,--those solidities to which such as the Whartons and the Fletchers are wont to trust.

The Fletchers had always been good Conservatives, and were proper people to be in Parliament.

It was well known now to all the Whartons and the Fletchers that this Lopez, who had married her who was to have been the pearl of the two families, had proved himself to be a scoundrel.

In June the Fletchers would go to town for a week, and then Emily might return to Wharton Hall.

Through it all, and under it all,--though she would ever defend her husband because he was dead,--she knew that she had disgraced the Whartons and brought a load of sorrow upon the Fletchers, and she was too proud to be forgiven so quickly.

This very change in the circumstances of the property would be sure, of itself, to bring the Fletchers to Wharton,--and then how should she look at him, how answer him, if he spoke to her tenderly?

When Mr Wharton and his daughter reached Wharton Hall there were at any rate no Fletchers there as yet.

And so the old woman had given in, and had at last consented to go forward as the advanced guard of Fletchers, and lay siege to the affections of the woman whom she had once so thoroughly discarded from her heart.

And then it came out by degrees that John Fletcher and his wife and all the little Fletchers were coming to Wharton for the Christmas weeks.